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Recap: Impact Investing Forum 2010
Last week, London was the venue for the Impact Investing Forum - two days covering a range of topics, including the role of different stakeholders, case studies from a variety of sectors and infrastructure initiatives for the impact investing space. It was a great teaser for the kinds of discussions we might also expect from upcoming SOCAP Europe.
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One Laptop Per Child … But What “Laptop”?
The convergence of PCs and mobile phones, is well under way. It’s hard to believe that transformation began in earnest just three years ago when Apple unveiled the iPhone. Today, Africans are turning their late adoption of technology to their advantage by leapfrogging landlines and personal computers to mobile devices, and developers are following.
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Exits for Impact Investment: The Key to Becoming Mainstream
Steve Jobs purchased Pixar in 1986 for $10 million and 20 years later sold the studio Disney for $7.4 billion. Impact investing may never produce exits on that scale, but a report from JP Morgan contains a wealth of key insights into impact investment, including the need for more exits, which could help attract more mainstream investors.
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Building a Fortune With the BoP: A Video Interview with Ted London
If BoP was a piece of music, then Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid aims to convert it from an analog to a digital format. A decade after the concept first emerged and myriad businesses have adopted BoP as a guiding principle, veteran and new thought leaders challenge us not to build a fortune at, but WITH, the BoP.
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Friday Roundup – 12/3/10: Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
This week saw the release of two new pieces of literature that advance the knowledge on market-based approaches to poverty alleviation. We’ll make sure to update our Base of the Pyramid 101 accordingly.
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Discussing Disqus, the Next Step in NB?s Interactive Community
Next week, we hope to drastically reduce NextBillion’s diet of spam, and more importantly, take the NextBillion community to the next level of interaction. We’ll migrate NextBillion’s existing commenting system to Disqus,an open-source commenting platform that is used by many large publishers, including CNN, Engadget and Mashable.
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In Search of Innovation: Flexible Capital
From Omidyar’s perspective, innovation in philanthropy can be amplified through a "flexible capital" approach, one that at times leaves the familiarity of grant making and enters the field of investing. This approach considers a variety of funding instruments as potential tools to address a social problem.
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Gold Stars: The Best of November on NextBillion
The ancient proverb, "you never step in the same river twice" also applies to blogs like NextBillion, where our content tends to flow fast. In an attempt to highlight some great posts before they are digitally washed downstream, I’d like pause at the beginning of each month to call out some of best of NextBillion for the previous month.
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